How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind: The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality by Lorraine Daston, Rebecca Lemov, Paul Erickson, Thomas Sturm, Judy L. Klein, Michael D. Gordin

How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind: The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality

Lorraine Daston, Rebecca Lemov, Paul Erickson, Thomas Sturm, Judy L. Klein, Michael D. Gordin

272 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
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In the United States at the height of the Cold War, roughly between the end of World War II and the early 1980s, a new project of redefining rationality commanded the attention of sharp minds, powerful politicians, wealthy foundations, and top mil...

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